Check out the Hugo Winners page – we compiled a list of all the Hugo winners and audio editions of those works, if they exist. We hope you find it helpful!
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Category: News
Big news for Hitchhiker fans! (Yes, I am one…) …
Big news for Hitchhiker fans! (Yes, I am one…) In February, 2004, on BBC 4 Radio, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series will continue! From the Crazy Dog Audio Theatre website (go there for the full story):
BBC RADIO 4 presents an ABOVE THE TITLE PRODUCTION
THE HITCH HIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
by DOUGLAS ADAMS
THE TERTIARY, QUADRENARY & QUINTESSENTIAL PHASES:
“LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING”,
“SO LONG & THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH”
& “MOSTLY HARMLESS”
Twenty-five years after the original radio series of DOUGLAS ADAMS’ HITCH HIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY exploded into the public consciousness, the further exploits of its bewildered hero ARTHUR DENT are being brought to life in their original medium.
Drawn from Douglas Adams’ later Hitch Hiker novels, the adventures continue in LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING, which will be dramatised in six half hour episodes, SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH and MOSTLY HARMLESS, which will comprise four episodes each.
As the original two series were dubbed the PRIMARY and SECONDARY phases by Douglas Adams, these new series form the TERTIARY, QUADRENARY and QUINTESSENTIAL phases, and will at last finish the ‘trilogy in five parts’.
The original Hitch Hikers radio cast is returning; SIMON JONES as Arthur Dent, GEOFFREY McGIVERN as Ford Prefect, SUSAN SHERIDAN as Trillian, MARK WING-DAVEY as Zaphod Beeblebrox and STEPHEN MOORE as the much loved Marvin The Paranoid Android.
Again, more of the story on the Crazy Dog Audio Theatre website.
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A few updates to give you here… First, please…
A few updates to give you here…
First, please check out our Featured Selections pages. These replaced our “New Releases” page, which was getting difficult to maintain. We’ll keep you updated here whenever we find an interesting new release. One upcoming audiobook that I’m excited about is Random House’s unabridged A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. Amazon shows a release date in January. Stay tuned…
Second, Jesse and I have just started a discussion group over on Yahoogroups – find it here. Join and discuss! We’d love to see you there.
Third, there is no third thing!
An old Python joke… I’m listening to a Monty Python album right now on Rhapsody. I see they’ve got some Firesign Theatre there too! Cool – clicking now. I would love your comments on internet music services, of which Rhapsody is just one. $9.95/month lets me play anything I want as much as I want, 79 cents/track to write to a CD. Anyone having a better experience? Mail me!
Other things we’re looking at:
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber, both from Recorded Books.
The latest Star Trek audiobook from Simon and Schuster, Stone and Anvil by Peter David.
Anne Manx and the Trouble on Chromius, an award-winning audio drama starring Claudia Christian from The Radio Repertory Company of America.
From Audible.com, The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, Sep-Nov 2003.
Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers!
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
SFFaudio salutes this year’s World Fantasy Award W…
SFFAudio salutes this year’s World Fantasy Award Winners. Congratulations!
Life Achievement
Lloyd Alexander
Donald M. Grant
Novel
The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip
Novella
“The Library” by Zoran Zivkovic
Short Story
“Creation” by Jeffrey Ford (F&SF 5/02)
Anthology
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Editors
Leviathan 3, Jeff VanderMeer & Forrest Aguirre, Editors
Collection
The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford
Artist
Tom Kidd
Special Award: Professional
Gordon Van Gelder for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
The World Fantasy Awards were presented Sunday afternoon, November 2, at the conclusion of the World Fantasy Convention at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. They are given each year.
On audio, Jeffrey Ford’s “Creation” can be found in The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine 2002 which can be found over on Audible.com.
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SFFAudio is back online… thanks for visiting! …
SFFAudio is back online… thanks for visiting!
A few items of interest:
Locus Online has an interesting article by Jeff Berkwits on science fiction and fantasy songwriters – find it here.
Jesse points us to the XM Theater of the Mind, an XM radio station.
The science fiction world, of which audio is a part, is abuzz discussing this article by Spider Robinson, in which he questions the direction of Hard SF.
Enjoy! It’s great to be back.
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And now, a short intermission… Due to some ot…
And now, a short intermission…
Due to some other obligations (i.e. my day job), I’ll be out of town the week of Sep. 7th. SFFaudio will be back on Sep. 15th with some new posts.
Some of the things we’re working on – a comprehensive list of audio editions of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy award-winning fiction, reviews of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead on unabridged audio, and Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, also on unabridged audio.
Back soon!
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